Under a DACA amnesty, American taxpayers would be left with a $26 billion bill. About one in five DACA illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at least one in seven would go on Medicaid. Since DACA’s inception under Obama, more than 2,100 illegal aliens have been kicked off the program after it was revealed that they were either criminals or gang members. JOHN BINDER

Saturday, November 28, 2015

Sen. Sessions Wants to Defund Refugee Admissions Program By Warren Mass The New American, November 24, 2015 . . . With the rise of the refugee crisis stemming from the turmoil in Iraq and Syria, and especially since the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris in which ISIS is suspected of playing an important role, Sessions and many others concerned about our nation’s weak or non-existent security screening of aliens have shared their concerns. In his speech, Sessions addressed the matter of security as follows:

The President persists in this plan even though his own officials, testifying before my Immigration Subcommittee, conceded there is no database in Syria with which to vet refugees…. The FBI director tells us there are now active ISIS investigations in all 50 U.S. states.

Our subcommittee has identified dozens of examples of foreign-born immigrants committing and attempting acts of terror on U.S. soil. Preventing and responding to these acts is an effort encompassing thousands of federal agents and attorneys and billions of dollars: in effect, we are voluntarily admitting individuals at risk for terrorism and then, on the back end, trying to stop them from carrying out their violent designs.

Sessions quoted a warning made by the former head of the Citizenship and Immigration Services union (which represents immigration caseworkers) more than a year ago: “It is also essential to warn the public about the threat that ISIS will exploit our loose and lax visa policies to gain entry to the United States.”

And Sessions is not alone in the Senate in having such reservations about the Obama refugee plan. He continued:

Senator [Ted] Cruz [R-Texas] and I sent the Administration a list of 72 individuals charged or convicted of terrorism in just the last year. We asked for the immigration histories of each individual. Stunningly, the Administration refused to respond.

It would be unthinkable for Congress to acquiesce to the President’s refugee funding request when he refuses to even publicly disclose the immigration history of these 72 terrorists, many of whom are involved with ISIS.

Judicial Watch Uncovers Email Describing Hillary Clinton as “Often Confused”Importing TerroristsJudicial Watch and a small band of patriots in Washington have been
highlighting the existential threat to our nation caused by the lack of
border security and the Obama administration’s lawless approach to
immigration. We have also exposed the dangerous pro-Islamist approach to counter-terrorism by the Obama administration that, for instance, saw Obama administration officials working with Islamists
and terrorist fronts in putting forth the lie that an Internet video,
rather than Islamic terrorists, were responsible for the attack on our
facilities in Benghazi.After last week’s terror attacks in France, likely assisted by at
least one ISIS terrorist who posed as a Syrian refugee, it would be
reasonable to think that good sense might prevail on the Islamist
terrorist threat. Unfortunately for the safety of America, the Obama
administration doubled down on its dangerous and dishonest radicalism.As the bodies of Islamic terrorist victims were still being
identified in Paris, and as France went into a state of war in response
to the carnage, the Obama administration’s first substantive move on
Islamic terrorism was to use the focus on the Paris attacks to release five al Qaeda terrorists from our secure military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama, on a crusade
to close Gitmo, is releasing terrorists from the facility on a regular
basis, and is reportedly planning to try to move the terrorists into the
United States despite a law absolutely prohibiting him from doing so.
With Obama, amnesty isn’t limited to illegal aliens – it includes the
kinds of terrorists who murdered dozens in Paris and, just today, in
Mali.The release of terrorists isn’t enough for this administration; it
imports terrorists, as well. Or, in the case of alleged refugees from
what we are supposed to believe is Syria, Barack Obama would admit
thousands from the center of the terrorist storm in the Middle East
without any serious security background checks. Rather than listen to
the American people, who oppose the refugee proposal in large and
bipartisan numbers, Obama’s plan to spend your tax money to bring 10,000
refugees from Syria to the United States is moving full speed ahead.Judicial Watch has long been monitoring this issue and reported over a month ago on how our national security officials confess they can’t vet these refugees for terrorist ties:

During a recent congressional hearing a director with
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which operates under
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), confirmed that the U.S. has
no method of vetting the new refugees because the Syrian government
doesn’t have an intelligence database to run checks against. It’s
actually embarrassing to watch the footage of
the DHS director, Matthew Emrich, getting grilled by the senator who
chairs the committee that conducted the hearing a few days ago. The
session was held to address the fiscal and security implications of the
Obama administration’s refugee resettlement program.Under questioning from Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, Emrich admits
that there is no reliable way to assure that individuals coming from
Syria are properly checked. The exchange lasts about seven minutes and
Emrich sounds desperate when he says “we check everything that we are
aware of” and that “we are in the process of overturning every stone.”
The bottom line is that there is no way to verify the identity of
Syrians so the defeated Homeland Security official proceeds to say that
“in many countries of the world from which we have traditionally
accepted refugees over the years the United States government did not
have extensive data holdings.”

Obama’s own FBI Director reconfirmed that there is no reliable way to “certify” these refugees will not pose a threat to national security.Obama’s reaction to efforts to either slow down or, most appropriately, stop this refugee madness has been venomous.
As is typical in Washington, the extremist Obama opposes modest (and
likely ineffective efforts) to slow his refugee program down.
Republicans (and many Democrats) are now defending a bill that, some suggest,
would do little to stop Obama from pursuing his plans to increase the
flow of refugees from Syria here by a factor of 20 times! I suppose a
fake debate over a piece of legislation that would do nothing to address
a serious problem is better than what typically goes on in Washington,
D.C., as at least border security and the terrorist threat are under
debate here.Once again, Judicial Watch is in the middle of this debate – exposing
the facts, exploding the corrupt lies, and educating Americans about
this core national security issue.We helped get the ball rolling on the refugee issue on Fox News
this past Sunday. At the end of that interview, I suggested citizens
ask their local leaders whether they were going to allow Syrian refugees
to settle in their towns. We predicted that would be the issue over
the next few weeks. Well, the American people needed no prodding as
governors from across the nation immediately revolted and said their
states would not allow Obama to settle refugees from Syria, for now, in
their states (to see if your state is on the list of objectors, click here for a map.)In addition, as the refugee debated heated up in Congress this week,
it was Judicial Watch’s Pulitzer Prize-deserving reporting on the border
terror threat that helped drive the argument for the pausing of the
refugee program. Key House members pushing for tough border security cited our work, noting our April 2015 report that “ISIS was operating training bases in close proximity of the U.S. Southern border.” Last year, our Corruption Chronicles first broke the news of Islamic terrorists on the border, including the fact they have already entered the United States
through the Mexican border. Moreover, Homeland Security sources have
told JW that four terrorists were apprehended by federal authorities and
the Texas Department of Public Safety in McAllen and Pharr. We alerted
Americans that ISIS is operating in a Mexican border town just eight miles from El Paso, Texas.Let me close with a point that you won’t hear anywhere else but may
well know as a Judicial Watch supporter: the Benghazi scandal and the
ISIS disaster are connected.We proved this beyond all doubt in documents we forced out of the Obama gang thanks a court order issued in a May 15, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit we filed against the Defense and State Departments. The headlines from our May press release tell it best:

Administration knew three months before the November 2012 presidential election of ISIS plans to establish a caliphate in Iraq Administration knew of arms being shipped from Benghazi to Syria

That material provided the first official confirmation that the U.S.
government was aware of arms shipments from Benghazi to Syria. The
documents also included an incredibly important August 2012 analysis,
warning of the rise of ISIS and the predicted failure of the Obama
policy of regime change in Syria. The August 2012 document, from the
Defense Intelligence Agency, deserves careful review by anyone
interested in the ISIS threat and how it could have been prevented. As
our release noted:

[T]he opposition in Syria was driven by al Qaeda and
other extremist Muslim groups: “the Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood,
and AQI are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.” The
growing sectarian direction of the war was predicted to have dire
consequences for Iraq, which included the “grave danger” of the rise of
ISIS:The deterioration of the situation has dire consequences on the Iraqi situation and are as follows:This creates the ideal atmosphere for AQI [al Qaeda Iraq] to return
to its old pockets in Mosul and Ramadi, and will provide a renewed
momentum under the presumption of unifying the jihad among Sunni Iraq
and Syria, and the rest of the Sunnis in the Arab world against what it
considers one enemy, the dissenters. ISI could also declare an Islamic
state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and
Syria, which will create grave danger in regards to unifying Iraq and
the protection of its territory.Some of the “dire consequences” are blacked out but the DIA
presciently warned one such consequence would be the “renewing
facilitation of terrorist elements from all over the Arab world entering
into Iraqi Arena.”

This DIA report is getting new attention these days, most recently in The New York Times
this week. No wonder Obama gets so crazy when pushed on the Syria
disaster, as this documents his alliance with jihadists in Libya led not
only to the killing of four Americans in Benghazi but helped spark the
ISIS war that threatens to ensnare the West in another world wide war.Our litigation, our reporting, our investigation, and our educational
efforts on these national security and related immigration/border
issues won’t slow down. Your Judicial Watch takes the Islamist
terrorist threat seriously, especially when the politicians of both
parties move on to other, petty topics. You can track our work here, at
www.judicialwatch.org. Please get the word out about our essential work to your elected leaders, family, friends, and colleagues.Obama’s Citizenship Push for Immigrants the Focus of New Judicial Watch LawsuitFurther proof that the Obama administration is a menace to the rule
of law, our nation’s security, and our republican form of government can
be found in the background behind just one new Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.
Judicial Watch attorneys filed the lawsuit last month to obtain records
related to letters sent by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to
current green card holders, urging individuals to become naturalized
U.S. citizens prior to the 2016 election.In April 2015, President Obama’s “White House Task Force on New Americans”
issued a strategic action plan to help millions of green card holders
become U.S. citizens. Immigration Services is reportedly reallocating
vast resources away from its “Electronic Immigration System,”
a computerized system designed to facilitate national security and
criminal background checks, to a campaign of letters to all nine million
green card holders urging them to naturalize before the 2016 election.
The Obama administration’s push includes federal funding for leftist groups that advocate for illegal aliens and amnesty.On May 14, 2015, Judicial Watch submitted a simple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to Immigration Services asking for:

Records related to letters sent by [Immigration Services] to current
green card holders urging such individuals to become naturalized U.S.
citizens prior to the 2016 election, including, but not limited to,
memoranda, guidance, and/or instructions provided to [Immigration
Services] staff regarding such letters and records of [Immigration
Services] funds allocated to such efforts.

Judicial Watch sued after the agency, despite telling us it received
our request, simply refused to respond to us in any way. You probably
are not surprised by the lawless cover-up given the issues (and likely
corruption) at stake.Obama’s effort to replace the American electorate with one more
amenable to his despotic approach government means getting the millions
of aliens to apply for and be granted citizenship as quickly as
possible. However, Immigration Services is obligated to conduct a
criminal and security background investigation of an immigration applicant upon his or her filing for naturalization.We can’t trust this to happen.In 2012, Immigration Services abandoned required background checks, adopting, instead, “lean and lite”
procedures in effort to keep up with the flood of amnesty applications
spurred by President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) executive amnesty, an expansion of which has been ruled illegal
by the federal courts. Nevertheless, thousands of illegal aliens
exempted from deportation under Obama’s unilateral amnesty moves are
also potentially eligible for citizenship. The Obama administration has already admitted into the United States a large number of people with documented ties to ISIS
and other radical Islamic groups. By the way, refugees (from Syria,
Somalia, and other countries) can become citizens as soon as six years
after receiving refugee or asylum status. President Obama is dead set
against serious background checks for refugees from these Islamist
regions.Despite the release of criminal aliens by the administration and
other immigration non-enforcement, violations, and failures, the
administration is reportedly expanding the naturalization effort.The Obama “New American” initiative is reminiscent of Al Gore’s Clinton-era “Citizenship USA” program,
which saw citizenship applications approved without the required FBI
criminal background checks in the run-up to 1996 presidential election,
in which President Clinton was reelected. As our friends at PJ Media report:

Naturalization plus mobilization is the explicit aim of the DHS “Task Force on New Americans.”Multiple sources at DHS confirm that political appointees are
prioritizing naturalization ahead of the 2016 presidential election.Empirical voting patterns among immigrants from minority communities
demonstrate that these new voters will overwhelmingly vote for Democrat
candidates. If the empirical rates of support for Democrats continued
among these newly naturalized minority voters, Democrats could enjoy an
electoral net benefit of millions of new voters in the 2016 presidential
election.

I hope you see what is happening.The Obama administration is violating the federal transparency law to
cover up it plans to use tax money to rush through citizenship for
millions of legal and illegal aliens just in time for the 2016
elections. Americans should wonder about whether this administration is
importing voters and granting unilateral amnesty to help win elections
at the expense of the safety and security of American citizens.